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The pressure for wage equality is being felt on many levels - women who have to work can't abide the idea of earning less than a man in the same job -besides the injustice of it, being paid less is demeaning - it diminishes her importance and talent by suggesting that she has the job because she can be had for less than a man with the same skills or education.

If a person has dry eyes or irritation from contact lenses, or can't abide excessive noise, or is prone to swimmer's ear, he or she is not going to delay getting a remedy," says one chain drug category manager.

John McCain; the Republican Party; talk radio; shout-fest cable TV; political cynics; anyone who can't abide the thought of a woman or an African-American as the next president of the United States; and anyone who needed "I told you so" evidence that mainstream TV political journalism has utterly lost its way and become largely irrelevant.

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